Renishaw plc, an engineering and scientific technology company, designs, manufactures, distributes, sells, and services technological products and services, and analytical instruments and medical devices worldwide. The company operates through three segments: Industrial Metrology, Position Measurement, and Specialised Technologies. It offers precision measurement and process control products, such as co-ordinate measuring machine probes, software, retrofits, equator gauging systems, fixtures, machine calibration and optimization, machine tool probes, precision styli for metrology, and smart manufacturing data platform; and position and motion control products comprising interferometric laser, magnetic, and optical encoders. The company also provides healthcare products, such as neuromate stereotactic robots, neuroinfuse drug delivery systems, neuroinspire surgical planning software, dixi medical's, and Raman spectrometers; industrial robots; and metal additive 3D printing manufacturing systems. It serves the aerospace, automotive, consumer electronics, medical and healthcare, heavy, machine builder, energy, and precision manufacturing industries, as well as scientific, research, and analysis industries. The company was incorporated in 1973 and is based in Wotton-under-Edge, the United Kingdom.